Posted on 03/14/2005 7:15:38 PM PST by twas
WASHINGTON - The leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States will discuss a plan to beef up continental security and speed up movement across their borders when they meet next week.
A report calls for the creation of a common economic and security community by the end of the decade. The document's proposals would try to create a secure perimeter around the continent, while making it easier for people and goods to move across the shared borders.
The proposals contained in the report are expected to be a part of the discussions when Prime Minister Paul Martin and Mexican President Vicente Fox meet with U.S. President George W. Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
The report was jointly sponsored by the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations.
Among its chief recommendations:
Unified visa and refugee regulations.
Joint inspection of container traffic at ports.
An integrated terror watch list.
Biometric border passes to allow freer movement at borders and customs sites.
Joint energy and natural resources strategies.
A strategy to stimulate Mexican economic development.
If the three leaders manage to agree in principle to some of the report's recommendations, further discussions would be required to hammer out the details.
Greater continental integration could be opposed in all three countries. A North American economic community could make some Canadians nervous about the country's sovereignty.
Mexicans could worry about a U.S. grab of natural resources.
Some Americans, on the other hand, could be concerned about their partners' commitment to continental security.
The task force that prepared the report was chaired by former deputy prime minister John Manley, former Mexican finance minister Pedro Aspe and former Massachusetts governor William Weld.
I'll be voting against this BS from the rooftops, if necessary.
Interesting idea, but with several question marks:
1) Port security will need to be beefed up as a result, as well as airport security. There wouldn't be any real land borders to secure now, except for a tiny southern border between Mexico and Central America.
2) Good luck finding support in Quebec...the land of anti-Americanism...unless, they become an isolated landmass in an otherwise free continent
3) Will the borders be completely unguarded as a result? That would be interesting to see...it would only work if port and airport security is beefed up.
Overall, it would be a boon for trade, but other things would need to be done.
Me too. Why do I feel like this is a disaster in the making for US citizens who believe in the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
Oh yeah, these guys: The task force that prepared the report was chaired by former deputy prime minister John Manley, former Mexican finance minister Pedro Aspe and former Massachusetts governor William Weld.
I can also envision that the customs sites in the following recommendation will eventually be defined as each state.
"Biometric border passes to allow freer movement at borders and customs sites."
I think we could find somebody better to represent the USA.
This is not good.
Bump
/jasper
The report was jointly sponsored by the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations.
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The sh*t is bubbling to the surface now, ladies and gentlemen...read carefully and understand what is going on.
(((PING)))
Why do I feel like this is a disaster in the making for US citizens who believe in the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
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This disaster happened a long time ago...we're just watching the final acts.
The New World Order is definitely on the march.
I curious how Bush is going to change a centuries old culture of corruption and bribery in Mexico to allow them to secure our safety.
The CFR? Um, Tin foil or not....If this passes all the talk about the return to the original intent of of our Constitution can be permanently kissed goodbye! Somebody please tell me why "free trade" can not occur without a "Continental perimeter""Unified visa and refugee regulations" and "Biometric border passes to allow freer movement at borders and customs sites". There is no way in hell that you will get American Constitutional common ground of peoples throughout Venezuela, Canada, Mexico, Brazil.......It will be US who must assimilate towards a form of Govt that I believe all here on FR are currently against. It will happen as it has over the past 50 years slowly but surely....Somebody PLEASE tell me I'm wrong.
A North American economic community could make some Canadians nervous about the country's sovereignty.
Mexicans could worry about a U.S. grab of natural resources.
Some Americans, on the other hand, could be concerned about their partners' commitment to continental security.
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For the record, a)Canuckistan 'nervous' about anything is ROFLMAO-funny!, b)the $BILL$ Mexico owes us can't be measured, however, the oil should flow NORTH RATHER FREELY IMO and c)"Some Americans, on the other hand, could be concerned about their partners' commitment to continental security" - nice try jacka**. America can secure our OWN borders and ports, we aren't gonna trust our irresponsible 'neighbors', Mexico is FAR more of an enemy than a friend and I FOR ONE am FULL WELL SICK AND TIRED OF OUR GLOBALIST LEADERS entering into UN-Constitutional, extra-Constitutional, sovereignty usurping arrangements with our anyone! Let alone our IRRESPONSIBLE "NEIGHBORS"!!
Archon "GET'S IT!" BTTT
"Ancient Chinese Secret" BTTT
"Mexicans could worry about a U.S. grab of natural resources."
who writes this b.s.?
we already have a lot of their "natural resources":
the states have their sperms and eggs,
and the more motivated ones at that.
the united states projects a 350,000,000 population by 2050. one report said that the united states would level off at 500,000,000.
This is pure insanity. Any security line should be on the U.S./Mexico border.
Didn't Canada just opt out of the missle defense deal? They don't even want our SELF-DEFENSE missles going over their land----
I can just see ole Vincente Fox rubbing his hands together as he sends more and more of Mexico's poor up through open borders from California to Texas so that they in turn, will send back billions and billions of dollars back to Mexico, so he can build another mansion or two---for some reason, whenever I see or hear Fox speak, I think of an hispanic Saddam---
Apes---I feel just like you, sick at my stomach and I just do not see anyone in "power" in this country that is of a mind to stop it---
What the hell is an ape to do?
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